• Everything Else

    Settle in Gently

    After a week of traveling to (and all around) STL for work (a conference for Kim), family (so many cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents and great- grandparents) and friends (beautiful, wonderful, hilarious, glorious friends), we’re back home and doing our best to settle in gently.  Luckily, the weather is perfect re-entry weather as we’ve been greeted by a cloud filled,…

  • Grow

    Weed City (AKA Market Garden – Beginnings)

    7,000 square feet. Seven thousand square feet. That’s the approximate size of the fenced in Market Garden that’s all set up on our brand new homestead and just waiting for us to dig in. That’s 15 times the garden bed square footage we had set up throughout our entire urban farm! That’s pure potential all wrapped up in a nice little…

  • Homesteading,  House & Home

    Homestead Tour!

    You guys, I cannot even begin to explain to you just how excited I am about our new house and the amazing property it sits on!  It almost seems unreal that everything we’ve been working for and planning for and dreaming about has manifested in such a wonderful rental!  So, instead of waxing poetic about our new home and why…

  • Everything Else

    Settling in…

    Whew… We made it! Despite a few bumps in the road (I was sick, Sprout was sick, the Uhaul places here are…hmmm…let’s just say…very challenging to deal with, we had so.much.stuff to move), and thanks to some truly amazing friends and family, we made it! We’re finally in our new home, unpacking boxes, searching for clothes, finding homes for everything,…

  • Our very first Farm Photo Friday, featuring *your best farm photos!
    Everything Else

    Farm Photo Friday – One

    Happy Friday and Welcome to our first ever Farm Photo Friday! I am so very excited to have three gorgeous shots to share with you today from three awesome Farmers! To see a larger view of the gallery photos below, simply click on the photo and it will open in a larger view.   Also, don’t forget to follow the links…

  • Family

    Fleeting Moments

    This girl. This sweet, strong, spitfire of a girl…keeping me on my toes…encouraging me to see the world through new eyes each and every day.  She reminds me to be present in this very moment (despite the ever growing To Do list ) by continuously showing me that nothing is constant…every thing is changing, growing, evolving around us all.the.time. If…